Bob Greene Quotes

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

I'm one of a kind even though I am a twin.

In a sea of millions of people, you really have to set yourself apart to make a statement.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique

What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.

I paid attention to not being a comedian, and just concentrated on being who I was. That is what you have to do. If you say you are a comedian that has been done before. If you just be who you are then you are unique. Everyone is unique.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis does not explain how and why each feels different from all other human beings.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.